Hi David and all, I've actually been wondering about the same thing - this year, I've ordered 5 Amaryllis Belladonna Rose foncé from Bulb'argence. I've planted 2 of them at my south wall, still quite sure they won't survive my winters here, and the other 3 together with some more Mediterraneans into a mortar trough with similar substrate at the same depth. As it was still hot back then, I didn't water any of them, but I guess the open ground may have had some residue humidity the substrate had not. Both open ground plants broke ground with a flower stalk within 2 weeks. a few days after that breakthrough, it had started to rain, so the trough got water, too - it took about 4 more weeks to show any movement on those Amaryllis, and it was only leaves on all three. I'm quite sure i didn't pick the biggest bulbs for ground, as I considered them death candidates anyway (still have to see that though), so what made the difference? Martin Am 09.10.2019 um 19:20 schrieb David Pilling: > Hi Diane, > > On 09/10/2019 18:16, Diane wrote: >> Maybe the newer ones along the edge had more room to grow, so they >> are the ones that bloomed. >> The central group you left intact could have been starved. > > But I kept many from the edge for myself. The number of loose bulbs > was so large that it is unlikely the ones I kept were any different to > the ones I sent. > > Unless I have some sort of bulb dowsing talent that lets me select > which bulbs are going to flower. > > -- Martin ---------------------------------------------- Southern Germany Likely zone 7a -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: A_Belladonna_rose_fonce.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 209639 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…